Date: Sun, 10 Feb 2008 02:32:04 +0000 From: RW <fbsd06@mlists.homeunix.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: script to be executed on system startup. Message-ID: <20080210023204.2d5279bf@gumby.homeunix.com.> In-Reply-To: <47ADEF6F.3050305@infracaninophile.co.uk> References: <1563a4fd0802060609j59451879h3920be790d7667c0@mail.gmail.com> <47A9FB98.4020907@bsdforen.de> <1563a4fd0802070549r71731883t9d606a2e62f67d4d@mail.gmail.com> <20080209174516.7f82a967@gumby.homeunix.com.> <47ADEF6F.3050305@infracaninophile.co.uk>
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On Sat, 09 Feb 2008 18:22:39 +0000 Matthew Seaman <m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk> wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA256 > > RW wrote: > > On Thu, 7 Feb 2008 19:19:48 +0530 > > "navneet Upadhyay" <navneet.upadhyay@gmail.com> wrote: > > > >> Hi, > >> After putting my script to /etc/rc.d , it gets executed at > >> startup and the parameter passed to the script is *faststart .* > >> *I want the same script to be executed when system shuts down , how > >> can i do that.* > > > > Don't put it in /etc/rc.d/, give it a .sh extension and put it > > in /usr/local/etc/rc.d/. It will then get stop/start arguments. > > No need to force it to have a .sh extension in /usr/local/etc/rc.d/ > nowadays. In fact, rather the contrary as a .sh extension causes the > script to be run in the context of the rc process rather than in a > sub-shell. > > In FreeBSD 6.2+ /usr/local/etc/rc.d/ is totally integrated > with /etc/rc.d and treated exactly the same. The system re-runs > rcorder over both of those directories once it has got to the stage > of mounting all the critical filesystems. There's a bit more to it than that I think. As I understand it, local scripts that contain a "# PROVIDE" line are integrated into rcorder, local scripts that don't have that line, but end in .sh, are executed from /etc/rc.d/localpkg in the old-style. AFAIK local scripts that have neither are ignored. So in short, a user script that simply responds to start/stop needs to go /usr/local/etc/rc.d/, and it does need a .sh extension.
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